I kinda feel that way about airplanes now. I mean, how do we quickly signify that a movie is showing "a futuristic city"? Well, there are lots of pretty colorful lights, and lots of metal things flying overhead. We basically have that stuff now. 

Every time I see airplanes routinely flying overhead, I can't help but think that someone 100 years ago (even at the dawn of human flight) would find this mind-boggling. When I picture a "futuristic" city now, I can't really differentiate it much from a present-day city. Perhaps the buildings will be taller because of advances in materials science, and I'm sure there will be lots more drones flying around - but yes, it will be mundane as hell*. 

I mean, I routinely walk to work reading a book off a device that looks exactly like a PADD from Star Trek. Then I scan a smartcard on an ad-hoc rental car parked on the street, punch in a PIN, and drive to my destination - leaving the car behind for someone else when I'm done. And all of these things entered my life in the past...2-3 years? 

We're definitely in "the future" now. At this point I'm just hoping I'll live long enough for radical human life extension. Doctor, I'm feeling a bit winded! Please generate and install another of my own lungs, please! 

* I seriously hope I'm being naive and completely wrong here, and there are inventions coming that are beyond my wildest dreams. But I still maintain that everything will eventually be mundane as hell.



...What happened to the American Dream....
Comedian: What happened to the American Dream? It came true...... you're looking at it
^ also a spot on realization that we, as human beings, have a tendency to build paradise then populate it with horrors. Beget by our own devices, destroyed by the very dreams that built them.